Getting Started

    Quick Start Guide

    Get up and running with LemWatch in under 5 minutes.

    Updated 2026-03-21
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    Quick answer

    How to monitor a website for uptime (step-by-step)?

    Sign up, paste your site's URL, and Lemwatch runs 45+ uptime, performance, SSL and SEO checks within 2 minutes — no code or DNS change required.

    Quick Start Guide#

    Welcome to LemWatch — your all-in-one website monitoring platform. Here's how to start in under 5 minutes.

    1. Create Your Account#

    Sign up free at lemwatch.com. No credit card needed. You get 10 sites on the Free plan.

    2. Add Your First Site#

    Click "Add Site" from the dashboard. Enter your URL (e.g., https://example.com). LemWatch auto-detects your site's CMS, robots.txt, sitemaps, and hosting provider.

    3. Wait for Your First Check#

    Within 2 minutes, LemWatch runs 45+ checks across four categories:

  1. Uptime — HTTP response, DNS resolution, SSL validity
  2. Performance — Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) on mobile and desktop
  3. Security — Security headers, mixed content, malware scanning
  4. SEO — Meta tags, indexation health, broken links, content freshness

    5. 4. Set Up Alerts#

    Go to Settings → Notifications. Email alerts are on by default. Add any of the 11 supported channels (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, ntfy, PagerDuty, generic webhook, or browser push) — see the channels overview.

    5. Take the Guided Tour#

    When you first log in, LemWatch offers an interactive guided tour that walks you through the dashboard, site details, alerts, and reports. You can also restart it anytime from your profile menu.

    6. Explore the Dashboard#

    Each site shows a health score (0–100). Click any site for detailed metrics, trend charts, and actionable fix recommendations ranked by priority.

    What Makes LemWatch Different#

    Unlike tools that only check uptime, LemWatch monitors everything — uptime, performance, security headers, SSL, SEO health, broken links, DNS records, content freshness, image optimisation, font loading, cookie compliance, certificate transparency, exposed services, and more. All from one dashboard.

    Next Steps#

  5. Take the guided tour
  6. Organise sites into groups
  7. Set up Slack alerts
  8. Check your Daily Briefing
  9. Explore Fleet Health
  10. Create your first PDF report
  11. Learn keyboard shortcuts
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